Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments

Missile Command

1/11/11 – Variety reported that Atari will set up Missile Command at 20th Century Fox as a feature film.  Burk Sharpless and Matt Sazama are set to adapt the 1980s arcade game that Peter Chernin will produce.  Atari topper Jim Wilson will exec produce.  Game is the third top title that Atari has set up as a film property, after Universal Pictures acquired "Asteroids" and Sony Pictures Animation picked up "Rollercoaster Tycoon."  With Missile Command, the scribes have little to adapt beyond a title to build a plot around and a Cold War-heavy scenario of players having to defend their cities from being destroyed by a rain of missiles.  Dylan Clark and Mike Larocca are shepherding the project for Chernin, while Steve Puri is handling for Twentieth Century Fox.

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